The World's Best Places to Live 2009


	The World's Best Places to Live 2009
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/index.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_lifestyle"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/images.businessweek.com/img/20597A61-3254-40EB-904C-6F45977EE652" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/index.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_lifestyle"><P><DIV>In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are, by rank, Vienna, Zurich (last years winner), and Geneva. Commonwealth nations fare pretty well, too, winning 9 of the top 30 spots—even though London comes in only at 38. The U.S. also fares poorly, barely making it into the top 30 with Honolulu and San Francisco in the bottom two places. The top city in Asia is Singapore, at no. 26. No cities from Africa or South America are in the top 30. The bottom? Baghdad once again comes in at 215.</DIV><BR />To find out which 30 global cities offer the best quality of life, read on.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/2.htm" href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/2.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">images.businessweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/2.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/images.businessweek.com/img/AEE03635-DBBA-4D84-940C-7DC54189F185" alt="No. 1: Vienna, Austria" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/2.htm"><H2>No. 1: Vienna, Austria</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/2.htm">2008 rank: 2<BR />GDP: $325 billion (2008 est.)**<BR />Population: 1,664,146 (total city); 8,210,281 (total country)<BR /><DIV>Life expectancy: 79.5</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/3.htm" href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/3.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">images.businessweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/3.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/images.businessweek.com/img/1A1C1D4A-930E-40A3-BD3E-56E051D3B7B9" alt="No. 2: Zurich, Switzerland" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/3.htm"><H2>No. 2: Zurich, Switzerland</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/3.htm">2008 rank: 1</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/3.htm">Population: 1,307,567 (total city)</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/4.htm" href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/4.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">images.businessweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/4.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/images.businessweek.com/img/41B752DB-ADC8-4870-8F01-D49F89EFCA28" alt="No. 3: Geneva, Switzerland" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/4.htm">No. 3: Geneva</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0428_best_places_to_live/4.htm">Population: 438,177 </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/23CDC669-C417-4BBF-96EA-3ED83883F68E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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